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From: wjafyfe@watmath.UUCP (Andy Fyfe)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Re: Caltech's Cosmic Cube
Message-ID: <11540@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 21:26:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 21:26:57 1985
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References: <333@oakhill.UUCP> <21294@lanl.ARPA> <7268@watrose.UUCP> <402@dsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: wjafyfe@watmath.UUCP (Andy Fyfe)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <402@dsd.UUCP> ross@dsd.UUCP (Evan Ross) writes:
>As a matter of fact, Intel has announced the iPSC family of parallel
>computers which seem to be a commercial version of the Comsic Cube.
>Each node has 80286/80287, 512k Ram, 7 Point to point comm channels,
>one global comm channel, and an 82586 LAN coprocessor to handle all of
>the comm channels.

Actually, there are 8 82586 Ethernet chips, one for each communication
channel.  (I have actually seen (and touched) a board.)  If there's
interest (send me mail), I can post info from the announcement package.

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